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Also known as Kemi, Kemj
historic town and the administrative center of Kemsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia
Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Republic of Karelia
- Administrative district
- Kemsky District
- Elevation
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Total
- 13,051
- Estimate 2023
- 9,712 ( −25.6% )
- Capital of
- Kemsky District
- Municipal district
- Kemsky Municipal District
- Urban settlement
- Kemskoye Urban Settlement
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( UTC+03:00 )
- Postal code
- 18661x
- Dialing code
- +7 81458
- Website
- kem .onego .ru /kem /
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Kemi
- Country
- Tsardom of Russia
- Population
- 9712
- Area
- 21
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- kem.onego.ru
- Image
- Kem' 02.JPG
- Dialing code
- 81458
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- Commons category
- Kem (town)
- postal code
- 186615
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- inception
- 1301-00-00
- native label
- Kemi
- different from
- Kem River
- nickname
- Город на берегу Белого моря
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Encyclopedic overview
Kem (Russian: Кемь; Finnish and Karelian: Kemi, sometimes Vienan Kemi) is a historic town and the administrative center of Kemsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the shores of the White Sea where the Kem River enters it, on the railroad leading from Petrozavodsk to Murmansk. It had a population of 13,051 as of 2010, which was down from previous years.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.